How do I tell them?

Okay, now that I have talked about why I chose pregnancy to write about, I would now like to talk about how I answered one of the first questions that popped into my head when I found out I was expecting. Since I am here now talking about my whole pregnancy experience I am going to skip the first question I mentioned in my previous post (whether or not to keep the baby). Obviously everybody knows my answer to that decision.

So onto the next question. How will I tell my family and friends, specifically the babies father and my parents?

Lets start from the very beginning. On the night of February 10th I decided I should get a pregnancy test, due to the fact that I could not drink an iced tea from McDonald's like I normally do. I was too nervous to take it that night (plus your first morning urine is more accurate) so I waited until the next morning to take the test. That day I had plans to run errands with my sister so while we were out and about I casually brought up the question "So what are the chance of having a false positive on a home pregnancy test"? I already knew the answer to this question, so we made some detours and went to get my pregnancy "officially documented" for my insurance and stuff. Telling her was the easy part.

After all the questions from the doctors and such, I had to think about how and when to tell my boyfriend. I decided that since it was so close to valentines day I would wait until then to tell him, I spent the next three days trying to decide HOW I was going to tell him and trying to avoid him so I did not "let it slip" before then. This was extremely hard, and he knew that I was "up to something". On the night of the 13th while I was at work I FINALLY decided how I was going to tell him.

I stumbled across a pocket sized baby name book that we sell at my place of employment (surprisingly enough I had NEVER seen this book before this day). As soon as I seen it I knew right away that was it! With Valentines day being the next day I stopped at dollar general and bought a small gift bag as soon as I got out of work. Him and I already had plans for dinner and I already had a couple other gifts I previously purchased for him.

The next evening after I got out of work on our way to dinner I gave him his "real gifts" and told him he had one other but it had to wait until after dinner. We had to wait over an hour for a table at Red Lobster (we originally planned on going to Lucky's but there was a three hour wait there) this wait was antagonizing for me, after all I was keeping one of the biggest secrets in my life. By the time we got a table, I was so nervous (and my "morning sickness" always came later in the evening) I could barley eat anything.

After we packed up most of my food, we went back to his house. As soon as we got in the house I sat the little gift bag on his chair and told him I was getting in the shower, before I could actually get into the shower I heard him yell "OH MY GOD, what is this!!!?" "Is this forreal?" "Your not lieng are you?".. That night he was very excited as he has been talking about trying to have another child for a few years...... Now that hard part was over.......